Three Minutes or Less (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Pen/Faulkner Foundation

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

An anthology of never-before-published short essays by America's literary greats. Each October at the PEN Gala, well-known authors take the stage of the Folger Shakespeare Library's Theatre to ponder the meaning of such universal mysteries as "obsession," "illusion," "first love," and more. Each author is given only three minutes or less to speak. The results have been unpredictable--clever, confessional, inspiring, hilarious, profound, and all of them entertaining. These essays have been transcribed for the first time, and comprise this unique anthology. Among the authors are: Russell Banks, T. Coraghessan Boyle, Annie Dillard, Gail Godwin, Allan Gurganus, Jane Hamilton, Alice Hoffman, Susan Isaacs, Charles Johnson, William Kennedy, Chang-rae Lee, Larry McMurtry, Sue Miller, Joyce Carol Oates, George Plimpton, Francine Prose, Maurice Sendak, Anita Shreve, Jane Smiley, William Styron, Deborah Tannen, John Edgar Wideman.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Dezember 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781596918788
• Artikelnr.: 38325563

Autorenporträt

The PEN/Faulkner Foundation confers an annual national prize for the best work of fiction by an American author and brings literary programs of quality to the citizens of the Washington metropolitan area.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Beginnings William Kennedy Robert Stone Pat ConroyWilliam
Styron Hortense CalisherEudora Welty Larry McMurtry Maurice Sendak Amiri
Baraka Richard Bausch Annie Dillard Brendan Gill Dons Grumbach Stephen
Goodwin Gloria NaylorJoyce Carol Oates Mary Lee Settle Susan Sontag
Reynolds Price Susan Richards Shreve First Love Pete Hamill Rita Mae Brown
Christopher Buckley Allan GurganusThomas Caplan Reginald McKnightJohn Casey
Elena Castedo Rita Dove Alice HoffmanMona Simpson Kaye Gibbons William
Kittredge Lee Smith Kichara Wiley Cynthia Ozick Illusions Grace Paley Jim
Lehrer Robert Stone Russell Banks Susan Richards Shreve William Least
Heat-Moon Lee Smith Tobias Wolff John Edgar Wideman Elmore Leonard Gay
Talese Bette Bao Lord Ward Just Vasily Aksyonov Obsession David Bradley
Robert Olen Butler Barry Hannah Jayne Anne Phillips George PlimptonErnest
GainesFrancine Prose Mary Lee Settle Ntozake Shange Elizabeth Spencer Scott
Spencer Louis Begley Thomas Flanagan Maureen Howard Heroes Sue Miller Tim
O'Brien Allan GurganusT. Coraghessan Boyle George Garrett Gail
GodwinPatricia Browning Griffith Terry McMillan Amy Tan Charles Johnson
Beverly Lowry James SalterJourneys William Kennedy Jane SmileyToby Olson
Michael Chabon Alan Cheuse Maxine Clair Barbara Kingsolver E. Annie Proulx
Susan Minot Kate Lehrer Walter Mosley Octavia E. ButlerDenise Chávez A
Sense of Place Eudora Welty Norman Mailer Bobbie Ann Mason John Edgar
Wideman William W. Warner Blanche McCrary Boyd Ellen Douglas Shelby Foote
Marita Golden Larry L. King Paule Marshall Peter Matthiessen Geoffrey
WolffardA Lesson Francisco GoldmanAlice Adams Richard Bausch Susan Isaacs
Robert MacNeil Jill McCorkle K Ethelbert Miller Faye Moskowitz Lynne Sharon
Schwartz Deborah Tannen Christopher Tilghman William Gass Mary Gordon Ward
Just Gish JenConfessions Tony Kushner Barry Lopez Kathryn Harrison David
Ignatius Willie Morris Howard Norman Tina McElroy Ansa Robert Pinsky Alice
McDermott Madison Smartt BellMary Karr Amy Tan Reunion Allan Gurganus Larry
L. King John Casey Thomas Flanagan Maureen Howard Kate Lehrer Willie Morris
Grace Paley Ntozake Shange Lee Smith Denise Chávez Kaye Gibbons Endings
Herbert Gold Jane Hamilton Oscar Hijuelos Chang-rae Lee Claire Messud
Francine Prose Richard Selzer Anita Shreve Calvin Trillin Edward Albee
Rilla Askew Judy Blume Lorene Cary George Garrett